Does anyone have any uptodate information on travelling
overland between the western sahara/mauritania/senegal,
particularly on going from mauritania to morrocco, e.g.
visas, permits to travel, good places to find lifts, I have
conflicting information from the Morroccan embassy and the
Foreign office travel adv
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Ed: You're right about the conflicting reports between
Morc and Mauritania. But check out this site as it is
quite useful for your purpose and the fellow who runs it
does a nice job of it.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ckscott/
Thanks Sven!
We're in Rabat and just spent the day trying to get the
elusive visa for Mauritania. Our plan was (is?) to go
overland.
The embassy is up front about the fact that they can only
issue visas if you've got an air ticket even though they
know you're going by land. They advise you to get a ticket
and, after getting the visa, returning the ticket for a
partial refund.
But something has changed. No travel agents will issue an
air ticket unless you give them your oath that you won't
cancel (apparently, by regulation, they must honor a
cancellation request). We don't have the heart to screw
them over.
We visited a dozen travel agents and they all said if we
don't have a visa they can't issue a ticket. Classic catch
22. We should've tried in Madrid.
We went back to the embassy to tell our tale and they
shrugged saying it should be no problem to get an air
ticket from any agency in town. But the main visa guy
wasn't there in the afternoon so we'll try again in the
morning. I'll try to follow up here if there is anything
further to tell.
Oh, and by the way, an air ticket Casablanca-Dakar is about
US$500.
Gregg
www.madnomad.com